13.01.2012

On January 12th Latvian team „RE Autoclub” car crew Ilya Kuznetsov/Roman Elagin („Mitsubishi Pajero Evolution MPR 107”) in Dakara 11th stage showed his best performance and crossed the finish line on 13th position. Anton Melnikov/Anton Nikolaev („Mitsubishi Pajero Triton”) took the 26th position.

On January 12th in 11^th stage all participants accomplished  598 km long distance in Chili and Peru off-roads from Arique to Arequipa with riley stage 478 km.

In this stage only 46th car crews finished the stage in time, best results showed „RE Autoclub” pilot Kuznetsov staying behind rally raid leader Stephan Peterhansel just for 56 minutes. Melnikov took 26th place. After taken 11 of the 15 stages Melnikov now are in 19th place, but Kuznetsov has moved from 60th places to 35th place after few stages.

After 11^th stage in car profile the leader was French driver Stephan Peterhansel with “Mini”. After less than four minutes arrived spanish driver Nani Roma. In overall both ‘Mini” drivers are the rally raid leaders.

On January 13th will be taken 12th stage in to Peru off-roads within 657 km long distance from Arequipa till Nasca.